Routledge | Reimagining God And Resacralisation (2019 EN)

Author: Alexa Blonner
Full Title: Reimagining God And Resacralisation
Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (May 14, 2019)
Year: 2019
ISBN-13: 9780367786397 (978-0-367-78639-7), 9780367147730 (978-0-367-14773-0), 9780429053344 (978-0-429-05334-4)
ISBN-10: 0367786397, 0367147734, 0429053347
Pages: 170
Language: English
Genre: Religious Studies
File type: PDF (True, but nonnative Cover)
Quality: 9/10
Price: £120.00


This book shows that widespread resacralisation has been taking place, which is producing new ways of perceiving God and the divine. The last century has seen unmistakable changes in religious practices and the concept of spirituality right across the world. There was a broad expectation for much of the twentieth century that religious worldviews would eventually succumb to the challenge of secularist materialism, but this process of secularisation has yet to occur as predicted.

The book begins by contrasting theories of secularisation and resacralisation. Throughout the book, conceptual threads, or ‘new religious themes’, related to this resacralisation are discussed in terms of three main categories: reimagining God’s nature, substance and location; reimagining human value and purpose; and reimagining modes of redemption. Finally, the book considers how these threads are moving in various different directions, and what the religious future might hold.

This is a bold examination of contemporary spirituality that will appeal to academics and scholars of religious studies, new religious movements and the sociology of religion.

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